#zero conditional

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If hippos can run faster than humans on land and swim faster than humans in water, the bicycle is the only chance of beating a hippo in a triathlon.

How about a cyclist on an electric bike?

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Zero Conditional / Snowbaz AU fic

It wasn't supposed to rain today. On his way home from work in a deluge, Baz takes cover in a run-down bus shelter, cursing the weatherman and waiting for the worst of it to pass. It's a good opportunity for him to be alone and review grammar points for tomorrow's English lesson...but his colleague and unrequited work crush, Simon Snow, has other ideas.

I know who it is. I know who’s here to interrupt me, to plague me, to haunt me, as he always does.

Simon Snow.

If there's anyone out there, it's you.

Read on Ao3

Rating: T / Words: 9,882

(Thank you to these wonderful people who beta read this and who, let’s be honest, are just fantastic: @sourcherrymagiks @thehoneyedhufflepuff @caitybuglove23 @carryonsimoncarryonbaz​ 💙)

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Hello, back again. Zero Conditional please?

💖!!! Thank you!

I had the rain-bus-grammar idea planned out, but when imagining what would actually happen, I did have a vision of Baz trapped in the bus shelter with Simon whilst he tormented him with an ominous Marmite-finger. And thus began the task of writing Baz into that very dark, terrible corner. 😂 (Sorry, Baz.)

From this ask game: send me a fic title and I’ll tell you which scene was THAT SCENE, the one that prompted the rest of the fic.  

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You need to be racing a hippo on a bike if you want to beat it in the triathlon.

Structure: "If Present Simple, Present Simple" or "Present Simple if Present Simple."

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That's a complicated way of putting it.

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CONDITIONALS

Watch the video on zero (factual or real) and first conditionals.

Quando usar frases com ZERO + FIRST Conditional | Gramática correta do inglês (15:51) mmmEnglish

ZERO Conditional describes general facts, general truths, habits, rules and instructions. (Condition + result clause)

Use IF if there is a chance and WHEN when you are sure/certain that something is going to happen.(Present/Present)

FIRST CONDITIONAL = the possible conditional = possible future results = it might happen.

It describes predictions, superstitions, plans, promises, offeres, suggestions, advice or warning about a specific situation in the present

WHEN – very confident that something will happen

IF – not quite right that something will happen

POSSIBLE to happen (possible outcome)

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